Frontmatter -- Contents -- Short Title List -- Introduction -- 1. The Trout and the Milk An Ethnobibliographical Essay -- 2. "Gods Altar Needs Not Our Pollishings": Revisiting the Bay Psalm Book -- 3. ''A Bible and Other Books": Enumerating the Copies in Seventeenth-Century Essex County -- 4. Under the Exchange: The Unprofitable Business of Michael Perry, a Seventeenth-Century Boston Bookseller -- 5. Printing and Bookselling in New England, 1638-1713 -- 6. A Boston Society Library: The Old South Church and Thomas Prince -- 7. A Note on Statistics, or, What Do Our Imprint Bibliographies Mean by "Book"? -- Index
Summary
A collection of essays from one of the most renowned bibliographical scholars of our time